Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13,913, Thomas Dwire, Mass.

SERVICE
Dwire, Thomas
NUMBER
R. 13,913
CONTENTS

13713
P. O. _____
Thomas H. Lewis
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Lemans at Southfield 10 miles from State Hwy Main Road 20 miles 6 months then 10 miles to Hickory Bridge then thru to the Bath Chemical Plant Oct 77
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Tho Divine So Carolina
Sus. see let. the J. P. Box Aug 18 31 and Mr. d'armant. Afl. 2 c 31-
Act 7 June 31

Land Office, Annapolis, August 11 th 1835,
Sir,
Yours of the 6 th Inst n with the declaration of Thomas Devine, enclosed, was received, — the Muster and pay rolls of the Revolution in this Office, have been very carefully examined, and his name does not appear upon any of said rolls, — The declaration is herewith returned, —
I am respectfully, Yr. Ob d Serv t . G. G. Brewer
J. L. Edwards Esq r ,

Thoma Dune SC
Amenda
Stanwell SC June 29 July 27th 1833
To the Hon. Secretary of War J. H. Edwards Washington Col. District of Columbia W. H. Harvey
Augt 6 Hyde

augt 6 Plymouth.
To the Hon. Secretary of War or J. J. Edwards at Washington City District of Columbia U. States of America
Stanstown SC } Paid 20 July 27 th 1835
(Remitted)
Thos. Dunn SC

State of South Carolina      On the 17 th day of July 1833 Anderson District      personally appeared before me the subscribing justice of the State and District aforesaid Thomas Duvier a resident of the State and District aforesaid aged about seven or eight years who being sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1775 with Thomas Hallow in Baltimore and was put into a regiment that was called the "Flying camp" regiment that was raised in Maryland and Daniel Dorsey was his capt, or Lieutenant William Smith was his captain as well as he recollects — Smith was his Colonel, his major not recollects was taken a prisoner at Fort Washington by the British then taken to New York, he then enlist- ed out under the British and deserted them in a few days and went and joined the same regiment again commanded as above stated at Saratoga and he further says after joining them he was in the battle of Brandywine in the year 1777 and he says in the battle of Cloud mountain the year 1778 and then at the taking of Philadelphia at York in Virginia from there was removed to Charleston and there discharged He also states that he was in the battle of Stony Point 1779. The length of time he served after deserting the British was from shortly after the taking of Fort Washington until peace was made Generals Greene, Washington Sullivan was his General

The applicant further says he was a served as a drummer all the while as above stated and also says he he was will as he recalls about 12 or 14 years old when he joined the army first or then a boy,
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any way. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joseph Cox S.D. Thomas his Devere Mark
The State of South Carolina } S. Van A Lawhon Anderson District } Clerk of the Court of Sessions, & Common Pleas for Anderson District do hereby certify that Joseph Cox Esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is an acting justice of the Inferior for said District & that full faith and credit is due and ought of right to be given to all his official acts
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office this 24 th July 1838 in the 62 nd year of American Independence Van A Lawhon C. C.

As I can to you say that I have been acquainted with the applicant Thomas P. Quinn for twenty years Standing and have had many conversations with him on the subject of his service and he has always told me in substance the same tale as above related in his declaration.
I can say to you further that he the said Thomas P. Quinn is a man of quite a weak intellect that you may not find every thing precisely as he has stated it as it is in the line of those events enumerated in the foregoing declaration.
Joseph Cox P.S.
As he is no scholar and no other person of the same name in the neighborhood you may find probably his name spelt Dwyer or Quier
Direct to Stantonville P.O. So Care Anderson Dist